A second generation chuckwagon driver, who just completed his 20th season of competition. 2023 saw Cody post nine top ten runs including three runs that cracked the top five. A third place overall finish at the Century Downs World Chuckwagon Finals, and a pair of tenth place overall finishes at the Medicine Hat Stampede and the Battle of the North, and were his best of the year. Cody won his first show championship in 2018 at the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede, and in 2019 he qualified for the semi-final round at the Ponoka Stampede and made the playoff round at the inaugural Century Downs World Finals.
Cody started his career at the tender age of 15 with the Western Chuckwagon Association (WCA) in 2003 under the watchful eye of his father, former Calgary Stampede track record holder Glen Ridsdale. During his time with the WCA, Cody won 3 WCA show championships, and qualified for the championship final heat at the WCA’s season ending event in Dawson Creek in 2007.
Cody enjoys hockey and hunting, owns Ridsco Oilfield Services and works for the family logging businesses in the off season. In 2019 Cody started Homestretch Horse Transport, a company providing safe, reliable transportation for horses.
Originally from Paddle Prairie, Alberta, Cody and his wife Katrina make their home in Fairview, Alberta.
